Good Hope Wesley Chapel UMC

Here we G.R.O.W.!

The Rev. Angela Ford Nelson, M.Div., PMP

The Reverend Angela Ford Nelson is the pastor
of Good Hope Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church in Camden, SC – the church with a big heart!

“Pastor Angela” is the daughter of Albert Ford
and the late Dorothy Hardy Ford of Wedgefield, South Carolina where she and her
twin sister – Adrienne Ford White and brother – Albert Ford, Jr. grew up. She is the wife of the Reverend Kenneth
Nelson, Conference Secretary and Coordinator of Clergy Services for the South
Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. Angela is a daughter of Mt. Zion United
Methodist Church in Sumter, S.C. where she and her family have worshipped and
served for more than 40 years.

Angela is a graduate of Winthrop University in
Rock Hill, South Carolina where she earned the Bachelor of Science in Business
Administration, and she received her Master of Divinity in December of 2015 after
completing 15 weeks of extensive Clinical Pastoral Education at Palmetto
Richland Hospital in Columbia, SC. She has
worked in the Financial Services industry for the past twenty-six years, and she
currently serves as the Global Business Controls Focal for Insurance for Concentrix
Insurance Services located in Greenville, SC.
Angela is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and the
recipient of several corporate awards including the Royal Bank of Canada’s
highest recognition: The “Leo Award” for outstanding achievement and IBM’s
Leadership Achievement Award.

For the past 15 years, Angela has served as
guest speaker and retreat leader across the SC Annual Conference; and on two
occasions as instructor for the United Methodist Women’s School of Christian
Missions. She serves as Assistant
Secretary for the Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Chairperson
of the Hartsville Committee on Superintendency, past Chairperson of the Board
of Trustees for the SC United Methodist Church’s Advocate, and member of the
Epworth and Killingsworth Boards of Trustees.
In 2014 she was blessed to travel with Bishop Jonathan Holston and a
team of 32 pilgrims to Johannesburg, South Africa and to Mutare, Zimbabwe –
this was indeed a life changing experience for her.

Pastor Nelson’s passion is serving the people
of Good Hope Wesley Chapel where she was appointed to serve as pastor in June
of 2015. She is also thankful for the
people of Mt. Zion UMC in Bishopville – her first clergy appointment.During
her tenure with Mt. Zion, the church was honored to receive the prestigious
Bishop’s Five Star Award for three years in a row!

Angela’s
testimony can be found in the story of the “Sinful Woman with the Alabaster Box”
spoken of in Luke Chapter 7; and when preaching she often uses her “Alabaster
Box of Praise” to illustrate the transforming power of God’s love and
forgiveness!